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Good points overall, however I often don't finish reading, or comment without reading the full content, for different reasons:

1. I have an idea or thought, that I urge to capture asap.
And typically, when I read on mobile I don’t have my notebook or note taking app handy, so I start commenting right away. Once I am done typing, I am only one click away from pressing "Comment".

2. Is it really worth reading in full?
A good article can cover one-two ideas tops, often you can get it from first few paragraphs and skim the rest. When people write, often more effort goes towards the beginning, not the ending, just like in reading. Posting things on the internet is "cheap", not every written text is worth reading. Or maybe not every bit of written text is worth reading.

3. Not finishing an article is something I have been conditioned to do by reading news: the essence of an article can be expressed in 1-2 paragraphs, the rest is an empty talk in attempt to create space for ads. Or, worse, very biased opinions.

4. I personally often get distracted by hyperlinks. When I encounter a concept, that's interesting, not very familiar and hyperlinked, I tend to click on it and often get sucked into a rabbit hole. This made me appreciate in-page tooltip style links, which provide a short overview info in-place.
Well, yes. If regulatory capture happens then it means that regulatory capture happened.

Not sure why you think that it is argument against regulation.
I felt the same way, until I found a friend who has been doing the same, so we vent to each other almost daily.

I'm still solo, but he built a team (and got to YC while I got rejected) so there is a lot to go at :)
I doubt it, that court have no enforcement power and Switzerland has direct democracy so isn't easily swayed by rulings like this.
This comment isn't really relevant to this topic though, I don't think it's a good idea to bring every single Mozilla related gripe you have into a thread that is only semi-relevant.
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Fun fact, this is running on my watch right now. Fitbit (by way of their Pebble acquisition) uses it to power their watch faces and apps. It let's developers use a high-level language like JavaScript to build for their platform, which increases developer accessibility. I've built apps on C for Pebble before which is not that fun by comparison.
But the current president did author the original patriot act (the bill it was based on), so there is hope that terrorism can be stopped from spreading on these platforms.
I don't present ID in the UK when I vote. I show my polling card (which they send me in the mail as a registered voter), state my name and address and receive my ballot.
Honestly, committing 100k to this is probably a more effective marketing spend than many...
Org mode and markdown recognizers?
Came to say the same thing. Congratulations for persevering in the face of lots of frustrations, and coming out with a winner of a product. I know how much of a PIA getting physical products designed, manufactured and shipped is. Sounds like you have a lot of happy customers for the segment you're targeting.
If @articlesofunity was banned based on its content (to suppress a point of view), why hasn’t Weinstein, who talks about the same stuff, not been banned? Why is @aounityhistory still up?

Are we supposed to believe that Twitter hates bipartisanship or unity or something? It doesn’t pass the laugh test. Biden’s entire inauguration content package leaned into those themes and we can all note that their accounts are still online.

All the signs point to @articlesofunity account being banned for technical violations of Twitter’s terms of service, specifically the use of automation to falsely pump up its follower count. Thats why the banned account had 25.5k followers but the history account, which purports to carry its flame, has about 100 followers.
I don't understand why Mozilla cannot see that MDN should be part of their core mission. I can understand spinning off Thunderbird and Sunbird, but this really seems a big step in the wrong direction.

Today their Mission webpage[1] states :

"Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all."

According to the Wayback Machine, 8 years ago that page[2] said:

"Our mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet."

Surely documenting open standards and educating developers is part of both the current mission just as much as the almost decade old mission?

Along with the "Internet Society" (.org) I can't think any of any other organizations that are, in my opinion, so misguided as they are critically important to the future of the free internet.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120331122341/https://www.mozil...
> Pagerduty, Datadog et al have done very well.

They aren't an AI monitoring company. Pagerduty is a rules engine based alerting system. Datadog is nagios 2.0 on the web, with really aggressive sales people, and really expensive.

None of them are "feed me your raw data and I'll make sane alerts and root cause analysis"

Which is the core argument of the post, if you can't do alert routing, or root cause pinpointing then AI isn't going to help you. Its like saying that AI is going to make your UX, or backend app.
> Why can't those Linux distributions just ship with Firefox? I don't get it.

Which distro does not?
so did they actually donate or did they pay the monetization amount that their algorithm determined MDN should have?
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Sorry, I don't understand reaction of the nix distro maintainers.

Why is bookmark sync such a dealbreaker? Searching for "chrome extension bookmark sync" reveals already multiple 3rd party extensions that can offer this functionality, and building more seems like an elementary 2nd year university project.

If the intent with distributing Chrome on nix is to help users handle "Site Only works on Chrome" use cases, then does it even matter if the browser is fully-featured or has bookmark sync?

The whole thing feels like people have a bitter taste in their mouth, and want to react SOMEHOW to voice their displeasure...but it's a completely meaningless gesture that Google won't notice one iota. The only ones that will suffer are the users.
“Pre-paying” isn’t in the vocabulary for many though. You seem financially savvy, if you were to randomly sample the market how car buyers do you think have the level of resources and discipline to actually follow through with this?
That could be solved by a "configure" script that translates its arguments to ones that cmake will understand. And it seems it's such a good idea that someone has already made one: https://github.com/Richard-W/cmake-configure-wrapper
Hey, we (Victoria Metrics) solved the scaling problem for you. We've yet to see a customer with data sizes our cluster version couldn't handle.

I'd say "Scrape everything" mantra was born out of necessity -- engineer never knows what will be needed in the future. And "everything" didn't come for free either -- someone needed to expose that metric to scrape in the first place. If you drop most metrics by default -- it's much harder to add it back later and waiting for it to collect enough data. Users who take monitoring seriously, figured out long ago that it's much better to hoard everything that comes to mind from the beginning.

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/
It's not far off to be fair: https://www.ft.com/content/21b19010-3e9f-11e9-b896-fe36ec32a...

Again, buzzwords and whatever get's money in the bank is what leads tech development. Which is probably why we have stagnated on new, radical ideas or at least they are not nearly enough getting awareness.
People who want the convenience and don't care about syncing their Google account and sending their keystrokes to Google servers can always install Chrome. For Chromium, staying away from proprietary services by default is much more keeping with the spirit of open source.
All of Scandinavia have similar programs but only Norway have significant oil income. USA has more oil per capita than Denmark so they don't count.
Google might be about to kill off website cookies for good
One guy in one state asks for actual evidence such as an actual reason why fraud is being alleged and the entire investigation shrugs it's shoulders, says oh well we tried, and shuts itself down and quietly goes away? Really?

Also why pick on Padilla, why not Jon Husted (Rep, Ohio). What about all the Republican lead states where massive fraud was supposed to have happened? Trump expended no political capital or effort whatsoever on doing anything meaningful about supposed voter fraud, and couldn't even persuade any Republican state administrations he had any credible evidence or reason for alleging it. He just gave up immediately at the first hurdle of being asked what he wanted to do and why. In fact he didn't even pursue this personally, he just delegated it to some flunkies and walked away from the issue until the next election.

How to explain this? It's almost as if he had no credible reason for making the claims and the whole thing was just for show.
Tangent from the discussion:
I am thinking to start using to develop some side projects.

What are the industry practices in terms of which libraries to use?

Could someone share light on their setup.
Passengers.
Glenn Greenwald is used to claim that point-of-view journalism is perfectly fine, as long as the point of view is factually grounded. He said it on multiple occasions. If you look at his work and tweet feed, it is strongly point of view driven and at times emotional (the prevailing emotion and perpetual outrage). He does not seem to like concrete politician, but it very very clear who his enemies are. Glenn Greenwald is not an example of someone who is not psychologically connected or avoids the appearance of impropriety.

Glenn Greenwald on Trump during Biden inauguration: "Trump left the White House about as weak, cucked, and submissive as it’s possible for a grown adult to scamper away." I really dont know what he wanted Trump to do, he was way more critical of Biden and democrats then of Trump last months. Leaving during innaguration without causing issues sounds like exactly what is expected.

But the very same day, he called the "chills" tween inappropriate, claimed that such tweet is overly emotional and equated that tweet with being on public tv. Glenn Greenwald is last person that has any grounds to pontificate about objectivity and bias.
There are probably dozens of open source cross-browser syncing extensions out there. Installing them is already trivial, and bundling one of them in by default would probably be as well.
Well... this is how I just found out about them. I find coil very interesting! Strongly thinking about becoming a member, but I would like to find out if the websites I follow use the web monetization tag first.
This post omits a few 'truths' to push an argument that is simply not there.

1) chromium is used by several other browsers: Edge, Brave, Opera, and probably a whole range of niche browsers I don't know about. Most of these, probably don't rely on Google provided services (I imagine that would create some funny legal issues). None of these browsers are mentioned in the article.

2) The APIs mentioned aren't exactly rocket science and perfectly good OSS implementations (e.g. provided by Mozilla) exist. Also, you could use extensions. For example, Bitwarden integrates nicely into chrome and largely removes the need for built in password managers. I think browser sync is perhaps the hardest of these. But even that should not be too hard to improvise. Cross browser sync would actually be a nice thing to have.

3) Firefox is there, it's being maintained, and you can use it. Many people do. Blanket stating that that is not an option is kind of weird. It's a fine browser. It doesn't have this problem. Chromium is also still a fine browser; and it supports extensions as mentioned before.

4) Forking/patching chromium is always an option. I think some linux distributions already do this in the same way that they also patch Firefox (Iceweasel).
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But it's new. These have lasers that create a new method of operating: they don't need to directly reach a ground station, they can send the data to another satellite (or a chain) first... eventually enabling data to go around the world mostly in the vacuum of space (for speed gain).
I don't have any proof, but I think it's wage fixing. Not just in Canada, but nearly everywhere outside of the United States.

I'm personally convinced that the only reason that engineer TCs in the United States are so high in comparison to everywhere else is because wage fixing is no longer an issue, thanks to legal action in California in the late 2000s/2010. It's kind of crazy to think how recently it happened. Just in the last ~10 years.

Top-band compensation for ICs went up significantly year-over-year, and it hasn't stopped rising yet. It's also dragged pay for engineers in the rest of the industry upwards. Startups and non-FAANG companies can't directly compete with top band TCs, but they're forced to at least try with higher salaries.
As another native Russian speaker, "i" isn't the most common transliteration for "й", and that's what bothers me here. "Hui" would be a plural, with an "и". Й is usually written as "y" or "j". Except when you're getting an international passport, then there's a good chance your name will end with "ii" because the federal migration service hates you.
We have lots of existence proofs of languages evolving gracefully and not throwing old code off a cliff.

Python 3 made the wrong trade-off of core developer hours vs. external developer hours.
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I've been doing this for exact 20 years this week. I always use a unique address for each site (pretty easy; I just use a wildcard domain).

Pretty much everything has been leaked: most retailers, software companies, all phpBB forums, wordpress blogs, Experian, Amazon (3P Sellers, not AMZN itself), Dropbox, LinkedIn. The list goes on and on.

Notable exceptions: Google, Microsoft, Apple, IRS.

These days is a lot harder to see leaks, as most egregious spams get filtered even before it hits your server (I use GSuite).
Yes, fossils form in sedimentary rock, which is relatively soft rock.
imo this is the difference between investors think and consumer/worker mentality. the latter group is far bigger and totally fine with a sustainable bussiness w/o any growth but then again 'money talks'.
Take a look at duplicity. http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

It does encrypted, incremental backups and can sync to many protocols including S3, DO Spaces, Dropbox, rsync, Mega.co...the list goes on. Super easy to set up. This is my go to backup solution for the cloud.
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> There's been a dearth of innovation for decades and markets are desperate for growth but none is coming.

its intersting dilemma for sure... i think alan kay also said, the innovations for xerox park only cost a few tens of millions of dollars, with the economic impact of literally trillions...

then this book comes to mind as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6130130-my-years-with-xe...
Yeah this is the sentence which jumped out at me too. Like, what? Across the diversity of new products out there, I've never had any problems with stuff not working on Firefox.
The process is riding on a foundation of chemistry and physics that has a whole lot of intrinsic dynamics. The DNA only has to take a causal role in modulating those existing dynamics. It doesn’t have to orchestrate every minuscule interaction, only coordinate things to the extent that the intrinsic dynamics come together to form something with an emergent complexity. It’s like calling into a complex library with a line or two of python. Yes, the top level is compact, but only because it’s built on top of a base of complexity.
You're right if course. What I mean is, would it hurt to just package firefox? Or is it really that important for some developers to have access to Chromium or Chrome?
As a business owner you should be thinking how to end any dependence on google.

Seriously you see the reflexive responses from in this thread from people who work/worked at google. They refuse to believe that google could have messed up and the OP did something wrong.

Google has a fatal cultural problem. Just like Intel. With the exception that Google has nothing that someone else can't do better.
tbf ""feed me your raw data and I will..." is any space is a bunch of hooey. Nothing special about the monitoring space.
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Sorry, maybe my question was misleading. Why do you need the sum=1? See the linked papers. They do the same but without the renormalization.
The criminally underwatched "See" is one such fiction. It might be somewhat cheesy but I loved the worldbuilding.
> Python should be forked

It is pretty much forked.
That could be solved by 'spray cooling', where you have a liquid cooling medium which is sprayed out of some nozzles on a beam in one direction through open space for some distance, and then recaptured by some other beam/vane/paddle opposite the spraying nozzles.
Does anybody know how much ice there is total?
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Hey, I respect your preference and mean the following question in good faith: Why do you care for this?

I can understand not wanting Facebook to watch your every step (specifically because they build your shadow profile and that can be uncomfortable), but not wanting to share anonymised data with developers, and with such a passion? I'd love someone to explain this to me.
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It draws quite a lot of power. From what I remember, the lipo battery required for 16hrs w/ no display would be the same size as the already chunky module itself, requiring wristband integration. Better to have a quartz oven and fire up the CSAC only once per hour as a reference, still yielding one factor of 10 in precision.

All in all it's better suited for a nice pocket watch with a 10MHz out connector. Any takers at 15k$+?
> Pagerduty is a rules engine based alerting system

erm that's AI too.
Presumably to make it less bleak than it would be otherwise.

I don't see how it would be possible to avoid climate change. But attempting to minimize it, or at least minimize humans' contribution seems preferable to doing nothing.
I'm going to guess it's a reference to the most recent season / one of the later books in Expanse series. Spoiler (rot13):

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Its not really risky, but it requires some knowledge that not all people are willing to learn in order to host a html file to share thought.
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I usually just smoke one puff and it doesn’t have strong effects. I’m sure this would be more effective in general compared to pills, so I don’t agree that we should dismiss this advice based on “oh it’s drugs”.
If a group has a tendency for bad behaviour should it be ignored because they are a minority? Why shouldn't the majority be allowed to call it out?
Actually, Pi-Hole can take additional lists, just like the browser extensions.

Under "Group Management", select "Adlists".
Every season had more soap opera to it than substance. But that's to be expected because it's a fictional drama and not a documentary.

I don't agree that Cameron was "zoomed out" after the first season either. Her role in the 2nd season was bigger than the first. Frankly I like the way they written her in the later seasons because even from the first season she reminded of engineers who have more attitude than skill (and we've all worked with people like that!) so seeing her career largely wash out felt more authentic to how a character like her would have survived through those eras.

On balance though, I felt this show was largely overrated. It had some good content but it was waaaay over the top with the melodrama. Unfortunately geek drama rarely satisfies American audiences so they need arson, punch ups and adultery to weaved into the story line.
I can, but it’s nearly always Google properties that are broken. E.g. the date picker in Google Books search was broken for a month up until a week ago. Oops.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871251023278080
But they aren't taking a hard stance like Huawei. Like redirecting to their store.
Look, three paragraphs beginning with "Look," give the article a rather condescending tone.
MDN is awesome; it's the Mozilla "product" that I use most often (though I do use Firefox as a secondary browser and Firefox focus as a junk content blocker) and I definitely include it in the "best of Mozilla" category.
Yeah because the majority today isn't.
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Hey guys, sorry for the throwaway account, I'm right in the middle of switching my job.

A brief intro; I'm a Software Developer (mostly Android) and have been working in an (mobile) AdTech sphere for 5 years. The company I work for is one of worlds leading in the mobile ad mediation based on the ad performance from our userbase (100M DAU).
I'm proficient both from technical perspective (aka how headerbidding works) and know how the whole cycle works from ad request to ad response.

I know best practices how to actually optimise performance of ads which directly impact the company's revenue.

I know stuff like:

- server to server integrations

- SDK integrations and optimisation

- AdProvider dashboard placement optimisation

- Ad rendering standards MRAID, VAST, VPAID,...

- Have made support for internal and external ad formats such as banner, interstitial, native ads, video, playable, floater

- Did a complete rewrite of our internal client ad library from scratch

- Know latest legislation requirements (GDPR, COPPA, CCPA, ...) and how to be compliant with them

Since the salaries are (in my opinion) much below average in my country (40k/year), even though the company is global and making a few hundred k/day just in ad revenue, I'm considering to change it.

I have no clue how to find something this specific:

- how much would be a reasonable salary for my knowledge and experience (I'm thinking around 70-90k)

- how to find a company for my specific experience (in AdTech)

- should be remote

Thanks for the feedback!

I believe this post might suit some people also working in this space with similar experience.
>As an adult, it would certainly be an outstanding discovery if this did matter.

Why not? It's not about being "still in development".

All of our organs (heart, liver, knees, joints, ears) can deteriorate in various ways if we don't take care of them or abuse them in certain ways as adults (e.g. ears and loud music, especially on headphones, can lead to reduced hearing). Heart, well, we can have the heart of a 80 year old at 40 if we have the wrong lifestyle.

So why not eyes as well?

(Not to mention myopia usually rises over time in adults that have it - and they change glass perscriptions etc.), so it's clearly something that develops in adulthood too. Not to mention other things related to the eyes and their plasticity etc., like presbyopia, that strike at ~ 40-45 or so.
Uh. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=starlink+russia and from there especially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25749178

So you were trying to say what exactly?
Better solution: land a bulldozer against it, powered by a nuclear engine.

Outcome: a giant asteroid parked in Earth orbit, ready to mine for all its worth.

(Hell, if you're lucky, the bulldozer may only need the fuel to get there, and then can use bits of target asteroid for reaction mass. A nuclear-thermal nozzle will eat anything.)
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